Feb 01 2010
Writing About Characters Using Their Senses
If John is your point-of-view character, you usually don’t need to say something like “John saw Randy drop-kick his sister.” Usually it’s sufficient to say “Randy drop-kicked his sister” because we can infer that the POV saw it. I would only recommend getting into the details of who sensed what if those details are interesting and/or hard to infer. For example, if a superhero is using a superpower to sense something happening, then it makes sense to point that out because the observation is not routine.